Symposium by Plato Plato

Both Plato’s Symposium and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics introduce provocative ideas about love and friendship and how best to attain them. They make it clear that, without love and friendship, life would be a miserable existence. Each figure in...

There is no one uniformly agreed-upon notion of love: it is one of the few concepts that people allow to be defined by its subjectivity. In fact, love thrives on the subjective. Exemplifying this point, in Plato’s Symposium some of the greatest...